Cécile McLorin Salvant – The Window (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

After bursting onto the scene in 2013 with the brilliant WomanChild, Cécile McLorin Salvant raised the bar two years later with For One To Love, an even more impressive and complete album on which her voice worked wonders, and the more traditional Dreams & Daggers, recorded live at the Village Vanguard and the DiMenna Center with her faithful trio, the Quatuor Catalyst and the pianist Sullivan Fortner. She chose only to work with the latter of the two for her 2018 vintage album titled The Window.

Born on August 28th, 1989 in Miami, Florida, she studied French law, baroque and vocal jazz in Aix-en-Provence in France before winning the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010 (at only 20 years old, in front of a panel of judges made up of Al Jarreau, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Patti Austin, Dianne Reeves and Kurt Elling!). For this album she decided on a vocal-piano duet. A baptism of fire which further demonstrates her astounding vocal ability. It is an album that also focuses on the complex nature of love through covers of songs by Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein and even Stevie Wonder. This is further proof that Cécile McLorin Salvant is anything but the cliché of a jazz singer, as trumpeter Wynton Marsalis puts it: “ You get a singer like this once in a generation or two…” – Marc Zisman

Tracklist:
1-01. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Visions (05:11)
1-02. Cécile McLorin Salvant – One Step Ahead (02:09)
1-03. Cécile McLorin Salvant – By Myself (02:34)
1-04. Cécile McLorin Salvant – The Sweetest Sounds (04:55)
1-05. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Ever Since the One I Love’s Been Gone (05:53)
1-06. Cécile McLorin Salvant – A Clef (02:05)
1-07. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Obsession (03:10)
1-08. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Wild is Love (03:21)
1-09. Cécile McLorin Salvant – J’ai L’Cafard (03:00)
1-10. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Somewhere (07:10)
1-11. Cécile McLorin Salvant – The Gentleman is a Dope (04:29)
1-12. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Trouble is a Man (03:47)
1-13. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Were Thine That Special Face (03:19)
1-14. Cécile McLorin Salvant – I’ve Got Your Number (05:00)
1-15. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Tell Me Why (03:28)
1-16. Cécile McLorin Salvant – Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You (01:10)
1-17. Cécile McLorin Salvant – The Peacocks (09:34)